Donielle Nash shares mom Niecy Nash's top acting tips

Of course, Nash's mother partly inspired her own acting career, but another on-screen icon also influenced her: Raven-Symoné. "I wanted to change my name to Raven," she told POPSUGAR. "She was so funny, and she dressed cute, and she was black, and she was kinda thick, and I was like, 'I gotta be that.'" Nash has since made minor cameos in "The Soul Man," "Modern Family," "Superstore," and "Grown-ish," as well as bigger roles in Kaling's aforementioned Netflix and HBO Max productions.

In seasons 1 and 2 of "The Sex Life of College Girls", Nash plays Jayla, a friend of Whitney's (Alyah Chanelle Scott) who sometimes delivers wacky lines. Her favorite scene from Season 2 was a bit more serious moment when Whitney, Jayla and Willow (Renika Williams) discuss Whitney's encounter with her biochemistry TA, which mistook her for the other black girl in class. and cried during the confrontation about the confusion. p>

"He pulled out the White Tears Card?" Willows replies, to which Jayla replies in a matter-of-fact tone, "If I had a dollar every time this happened, I'd only have 63 cents because black women earn a lot less on the dollar." Nash hopes Jayla can continue to unpack similar microaggressions with levity in the show's third season, should she ever be brought back. "I don't know what the plan is, but I'm available if I need a few laughs," she hints.

In season three, Nash also wants Whitney to get the justice she deserves after that wild final twist - you know, the one where she catches Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet) kissing her ex-boyfriend, Canaan (Christopher Meyer). "Obviously I'm not in the writer's room so I don't know how it's going to be, but I wouldn't be mad if Whitney slapped [Kimberly] and got her man back," Nash jokes. p>